It's true. I've been telling people recently that I'm not looking forward to whenever I end up buying a new car. My car has a key that unlocks the doors, and sticks into the steering column to turn the car on. I can pull that key out and kill the car in the process, and that process is all mechanical (to my knowledge, anyway). It doesn't even have that "OnStar" shit in it. So no GPS connections, no satellite link-ups. The most advanced thing it has is a tiny backup camera and BT in the radio.

The next car I buy might as well come with as the copilot.

Every modern car is just this, but for real:

edit: and one more thing! The amount of lawsuits Tesla has been subject to where they pull out the data logs for the victim's car and weaponize it against them is fucking insane. The fact that we know that it was shown that Teslas deactivate Autopilot seconds before a crash, and as far as I know nothing was done about it, doesn't make me interested in a fucking 7 ton computer that drives at highway speeds. They have used that "data" to say that people killed while using FSD had "Disabled Autopilot" which means their software wasn't at fault. Or they'll just say that the logs were lost but it definitely wasn't FSD that was at fault.

Edit again! I'm fired up here!

THIS WILL BE MY NEXT CAR, COME HELL OR HIGH WATER!

This is a FACT. I have computers (running linux and usually powered off when not in use), and a TV that I never connect to the internet and disable anything smart on it (if it ever breaks I'll either not replace it or go for one that's fully dumb since literally all it offers me are security vulnerabilities). What little use the TV gets is via a raspberry pi using mostly software that I wrote myself or is FOSS. Besides that the smartest thing in here is a damn toaster.

I like technology, sometimes anyhow, but corpo shit is simply not trustworthy nor well designed. If I can't rewire it or put my own software on it I'm not interested. A modded espresso machine with FOSS firmware and sensors and stuff? cool, sure, love it. A smart soldering iron with USB PD and temperature control? dope. But once you start getting into wifi and bluetooth and locked down software territory, it's a no from me. I begrudgingly tolerate my printer and my TV, but the printer predates the web and has a hard on/off switch, and the TV is on a switched outlet

If I can't flash the firmware, it doesnt connect to my wifi. Once, I was seduced into connecting a smart tv to my WiFi by its really cool remote that acted as a mouse pointer. I really wanted to control jellyfin with it instead of a wireless mouse and keyboard. Bad idea. After constant updates it eventually rejected my computer's HDMI connection to it. Must've been some stupid DRM anti feature. If I had a gun I would've shot the tv for such insolence. Luckily I dont and I calmly did a factory reset and learned my lesson.

This is extremely true, I had to get an IoT device for a niche task and I have wireshark set up to make sure its not doing anything sus. I keep it unplugged at all times I'm not using it just in case. I hate these things, all they do is let people turn them into botnets.

I'm on this bandwagon myself. The only smart devices I'm interested in owning are my PC, phone, and work laptop - everything else needs to be dumb enough for me to fix on my own if it breaks, or I'm not buying it.

I couldn't stop laughing at the irony. "my child is an absolute smooth brained parasite, do you think my magic car with wizard driving alchemy will keep her stupid female brain from killing herself?

Right! The first thing that stood out to me, what trash

Yeah I hope this fucker dies a painful death

I don't think the description itself is inherently problematic - some of us really do have problems like this. But considering his post starts off with citing her IQ points and quoting his condescending mother (that no one asked for) and just being an overall annoying piece of shit, I imagine he said that in bad faith.

If he's anything like the randoms I've played with in Forza he'll go full speed into a turn and bounce the car off a barrier.

38°C

Exactly 100°F, according to Google.

She wasn't "locked" in her car. She had every opportunity to use the door's emergency release to exit the car, but she chose not to because she was afraid of the possibility of damaging the car (and so that she could film a TikTok.)

It is however a design error that the car doesn't require all occupants to exit the vehicle before starting the update.

https://jalopnik.com/a-tiktoker-got-trapped-inside-her-115-degree-tesla-mode-1851404777

I would love to have a source for this, because this is too hilarious to leave to anecdote.

https://old.reddit.com/r/adultery/comments/1bkjb5f/tesla_is_killing_my_opsec/

the next update will let you collect tesla parts* and craft a new car in your garage

*must be activated with credit card